Hidden inside goalies sit goalies and soilage, seven-letter plays tied at the top of this rack with 8 points in Scrabble apiece. In all, 125 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
goalies and soilage tie for the highest Scrabble score from goalies at 8 points. The top 10 of 125 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
There are 2 seven-letter words hiding in goalies: one comes from rearranging its letters, and goalies itself is already a playable word with no unscrambling required. No common everyday answer stands out among these seven-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring words are goalies and soilage, each worth 8 points in Scrabble.
Below, the list runs in alphabetical order, with each score based on the playable tile set — premium squares not included.
Unscrambling goalies turns up 3 six-letter words. No common everyday answer stands out among these six-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring words are goalie, ligase, and silage, each worth 7 points in Scrabble.
The words below are listed alphabetically. Scores count playable tiles only and leave out premium-square bonuses.
There are 14 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in goalies. If a familiar word is all you need, start with aisle and goals. For points, the strongest plays are aegis, agile, agios, gales, gaols, glias, goals, loges, logia, ogles, and sigla — each worth 6 points in Scrabble.
The full list follows, sorted A to Z; every score reflects tile constraints and skips board bonuses.
Rearranging the letters in goalies produces 50 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with ages, also, egos, gals, goal, goes, and legs. For points, the strongest plays are ages, agio, egal, egis, egos, gaes, gale, gals, gaol, gels, gies, glia, goal, goas, goes, lags, legs, loge, logs, ogle, sage, sago, sego, slag, and slog — each worth 5 points in Scrabble.
Below, the list runs in alphabetical order, with each score based on the playable tile set — premium squares not included.
Unscrambling goalies turns up 38 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with age, ago, ego, gal, gas, leg, and lie. For points, the strongest plays are age, ago, ags, ego, gae, gal, gas, gel, gie, gis, goa, gos, lag, leg, log, sag, seg, and sig — each worth 4 points in Scrabble.
The words below are listed alphabetically. Scores count playable tiles only and leave out premium-square bonuses.
There are 18 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in goalies. If a familiar word is all you need, start with as, go, is, and so. For points, the strongest plays are ag, gi, and go — each worth 3 points in Scrabble.
The full list follows, sorted A to Z; every score reflects tile constraints and skips board bonuses.
Swap a single tile in goalies and you get a different seven-letter rack with its own word list. None of these appear in the results above — they share 6 of the 7 letters, not all of them.
goalies is in the NWL, the official Scrabble word list for North America, and in the Words With Friends dictionary, so it's playable exactly as it stands and needs no unscrambling.
The 2-point gap between the two totals comes from the tile values themselves: Scrabble and Words With Friends price the same letters differently.
Dictionaries record two senses for goalies. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 8 points on a Scrabble board:
goalies is one of two seven-letter words the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing goalies unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring plays from these letters are goalies and soilage, worth 8 points in Scrabble, and nothing else built from goalies earns more points in Scrabble. Words With Friends prices the same letters differently, so the top of the list changes on a Words With Friends board. Both scores count tile values only and exclude premium squares.
The letters in goalies produce 125 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 2 seven-letter words, 3 six-letter words, 14 five-letter words, 50 four-letter words, 38 three-letter words and 18 two-letter words.